"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed."
"To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence."
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Source: Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, p.112, Jester House Publishing
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